Rebecca Munro
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Rebecca Munro an avid bookworm, reviewer, and all-around “book person.” From 2016 to 2019, she was the Editorial Manager of Teenreads.com and Kidsreads.com. In early 2019, she made the leap to W. W. Norton & Company, where she copyedits and helps manage the publication of adult, young adult, and children’s titles. Rebecca loves books that make her cry as much as ones with happily ever afters; check out her ever-growing TBR on Instagram @vivalabookshelf.

A Song Below Water Interview: Author Bethany C. Morrow on Writing About Black Voices, Power, and Activism

Author Bethany C. Morrow is known for her ability to weave current and timely themes with speculative and fantastic elements seamlessly, first in Mem and now in A Song Below Water, a book about Black sirens, the power of Black…

Book Review: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow

Set in a world much like ours, but pulsing with magic, Bethany C. Morrow’s A Song Below Water is a heady mix of mythos, power, and activism. Written as only the best fantasies can be, Morrow’s spellbinding novel takes some…

Book Review: We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian

Siobhan Vivian is a longtime favorite author of mine. She’s a fierce champion of teenage girls, she’s effortlessly cool, and oh, right, she’s BFFs with Jenny Han. When Vivian released Stay Sweet in 2018, an ice-cream-cone sweet love letter to…

Book Review: Grown-Up Pose by Sonya Lalli

Anusha Desai is starting over. Though she is thirty years old, partially still married, and the mother to an active five-year-old, Anu feels like her life is just beginning. Married in her early twenties to Neil, her first serious boyfriend,…

Book Review: How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian

How to Build a Heart, author Maria Padian’s follow-up to Wrecked, explores the life of Izzy Crawford, a teen who seems to have it all—until the carefully separated sides of her life begin to overlap, forcing her to confront not…

Thirty Truths About Twenty-One Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks

Seven things to know about Twenty-One Truths About Love: It’s a novel written entirely in lists (and, taking a cue from author Matthew Dicks, this review will follow suit). Love is in the title, so you already know to get…